I always wonder how the Foundation manages to get enough d-class for everything. They seem to kill at least 100 a week just for the lulz. There aren't that many death row convicts...or do they pull them from across the world, not just the US?

in times of duress, Protocol 12 can be authorized, allowing recruitment of innocents or persons incarcerated for lesser crimes.

A small slot on a carved stone cube aprox 5x5x5 cm. A stack of post it notes are attached to the side.

You take a sheet of paper off and write down the name of any object you may want made out of iron.
Insert into the slot, and a hologram appears above it of the object specified.
A small cuboid hologram begins to grow outwards from the cube, at about 0.1 m/s.
Every iron atom within this hologram vanishes from existence, and re-appears at the object hologram.
This cuboid sphere keeps expanding until it has all the iron atoms needed for the object. Said object will be 100% pure iron with no impurities.

I thought this up because if somebody pressed this without some nearby iron, all the iron in their blood would be removed. (Leading to problems for aforementioned person) One thing it would do is reduce steel down to a dust composed of the other materials present in steel for example.

A small slot on a carved stone cube aprox 5x5x5 cm. A stack of post it notes are attached to the side.

You take a sheet of paper off and write down the name of any object you may want made out of iron.
Insert into the slot, and a hologram appears above it of the object specified.
A small cuboid hologram begins to grow outwards from the cube, at about 0.1 m/s.
Every iron atom within this hologram vanishes from existence, and re-appears at the object hologram.
This cuboid sphere keeps expanding until it has all the iron atoms needed for the object. Said object will be 100% pure iron with no impurities.

I thought this up because if somebody pressed this without some nearby iron, all the iron in their blood would be removed. (Leading to problems for aforementioned person) One thing it would do is reduce steel down to a dust composed of the other materials present in steel for example.

Addendum: To the anonymous employee who took the Site-17 surveillance camera footage of Drs. Clef and Kondraki having a swordfight, set it to the "Highlander" theme song, and posted it to the company intraweb with the title, "There Can Be Only One": We will find out who you are, and when we do, you'll be missed greatly.

I always wonder how the Foundation manages to get enough d-class for everything. They seem to kill at least 100 a week just for the lulz. There aren't that many death row convicts...or do they pull them from across the world, not just the US?

Remember, the site is styled like the actual intranet portal for a real life SCP Foundation would be. They say they're death row prisoners, but they could just as easily be political dissidents from North Korea. The same goes for monthly termination, they might just say that to quell any moral issues the research staff might have.

231 haunts me just a little still. Possibly because brutal, long-term systematic kiddie-rape is such a fuckin' common problem in my end of the world. That SCP reminded me of newspaper articles that pop up about once a month.

I think a new event should be added to SCP-895's camera feed. At one random instant, once a day, the image goes dark, and when it re-brightens, the coffin lid should be on the ground, exposing whatever is inside it for a split second before the camera feed "crashes" in a BSOD manner for 10 minutes.

I think a new event should be added to SCP-895's camera feed. At one random instant, once a day, the image goes dark, and when it re-brightens, the coffin lid should be on the ground, exposing whatever is inside it for a split second before the camera feed "crashes" in a BSOD manner for 10 minutes.

Well, given that the coffin is empty to anything but cameras, the scariness of it opening is quite watered down.

Disregard that, I'm an idiot. The opening, however, would require you to die, so... Kind of a downer to me, at least.

Not necessarily. I'm just guessing that either A: the camera is designed to shut down if the lid is removed from the coffin, or B: whatever is inside is so mind-fucking-ly scary that the camera malfunctions and breaks when it is seen, which would protect, so to speak, the viewer from psychological insanity upon viewing it.

Not necessarily. I'm just guessing that either A: the camera is designed to shut down if the lid is removed from the coffin, or B: whatever is inside is so mind-fucking-ly scary that the camera malfunctions and breaks when it is seen, which would protect, so to speak, the viewer from psychological insanity upon viewing it.

Apparently whatever the camera placed inside it was scary enough to make a hardened command unit scream himself possibly to death, so I doubt anybody seeing it would walk away particularly sane.

Besides, it's a lot scarier to imagine what's inside rather than have it shown to you. It's the principle the scariest games known to man are based on; not what actually does lurk in the dark, but what could.

Apparently whatever the camera placed inside it was scary enough to make a hardened command unit scream himself possibly to death, so I doubt anybody seeing it would walk away particularly sane.

Besides, it's a lot scarier to imagine what's inside rather than have it shown to you. It's the principle the scariest games known to man are based on; not what actually does lurk in the dark, but what could.

I think it's more like something attacked him through the monitor, or telephathically killed the shit out of him.

Sample 887-3877: Eight pages, German. A folkloric tale of a boy born without a heart, who ventures into the woods and acquires one from a friendly old woman. He grows up and marries a beautiful lady, who dies giving birth to a demon that devours both.

Such a touching story. Gets me every time.

Edited:

oh god 887's logs are gold

Sample 887-3137: 47 pages of Hexadecimal code. Code successfully compiles into a PNG image of Dr. ████████ in a speedo. Dr. ████████ claims no such picture was taken.

Sample 887-1111: The musical score for "SCP Foundation, The Musical"

Personally, I think we should try to sell this to Broadway. I mean, really; how else are you going to see Dr. Bright and Dr. Clef belting out a duet about SCP-682's eating habits? -Dr. Edison

I'm a little new to all this - I only got into SCP from a game. I forgot it's name, but you all probably know about it.

I'm unsure where exactly to start on all this. But basically, these stories are creepy stories about various types of organisms? I've found the wiki where they're all archived, but I'm not entirely sure what to do. Just start reading?

Yeah okay, I'm a "newfag" or whatever the word is that cool kids use these days.

I'm a little new to all this - I only got into SCP from a game. I forgot it's name, but you all probably know about it.

I'm unsure where exactly to start on all this. But basically, these stories are creepy stories about various types of organisms? I've found the wiki where they're all archived, but I'm not entirely sure what to do. Just start reading?

Yeah okay, I'm a "newfag" or whatever the word is that cool kids use these days.

Just go to the main list and start picking ones out at random. Alternatively, you can wait around and I'm sure some people would give you some good ones.
Personally, I recommend 455 and The Sculptor of SoHo.